Sat.Dec 23, 2017 - Fri.Dec 29, 2017

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As we enter 2018 we will need Knowledge Graphs

Paul Hobcraft

I received an early New Year present, actually, it came from Siemens. They had invited me to their Siemens Innovation Day in mid-December 2017. I really appreciated it, yet it took me time to absorb all that was provided, over these past two weeks. My early present, well actually an idea, came the day before the event. I was included in the Industry Analysts visit to the Siemens Technology Center, at Neuperlach in Munich.

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Best ads of December and best two of 2017 (maybe)

Exago

December means Christmas ads and one of our two top scorers for Nokia by Mother falls into that category just about; another variation on the recurring theme that Christmas is about bringing people together, not handing out prezzies. Mother, our Agency of the Year in 2016, has kept up the good work this year alongside.

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The 4 Dynamic Stages of Collaborative Innovation – Number 3: Idea Review

IdeaScale

What’s the best idea among the ones you’ve defined? You’ve collected ideas. You’ve refined them. Now it’s time to see what’s made it through the process and evaluate which to act on. But how should the process of reviewing ideas be engaged in? Who should be involved? What, in short, are the best practices of idea review?

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How Crowdsourcing is Changing Education

Innocentive

In the quarter-century since the first website was published, the internet has changed our lives. Amazon puts access to over 500 million products before us, Spotify lets us stream over 30 million songs and Facebook allows us to connect with over 2 billion people around the world. We know that the web has transformed the way we shop, consume media and socialize.

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15 Modern Use Cases for Enterprise Business Intelligence

Large enterprises face unique challenges in optimizing their Business Intelligence (BI) output due to the sheer scale and complexity of their operations. Unlike smaller organizations, where basic BI features and simple dashboards might suffice, enterprises must manage vast amounts of data from diverse sources. What are the top modern BI use cases for enterprise businesses to help you get a leg up on the competition?

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Creating the Industrial Ecosystem

Paul Hobcraft

A couple of weeks ago I was invited to the Siemens Innovation Day. I really appreciated it, yet it took me time to absorb all that was provided, over these past two weeks. One outcome is this post. I am grateful to have had the time to translate this in my mind. We all move on far too quickly and not have the time to sufficiently reflect, and that can be a huge mistake.

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Top 12 ideation techniques to brainstorm your way to new ideas

hackerearth

To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk. –Thomas A. Edison. Does your ideation session with your teammates turn into just another meeting with a few people squabbling and the rest keeping quiet? How do you enhance the likelihood of having successful ideation sessions?

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?Making Innovation Personal: Resolutions for 2018, Part 1

Bill Fischer

Want to be part of an innovative organization? Change yourself first! In the spirit of making innovation more personal in 2018, I have asked a diverse and interesting set of innovation observers to each share a personal innovation resolution for the coming year.

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The Innovation Decision Tree

Board of Innovation

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Employee engagement and innovation

hackerearth

There’s a common belief in every industry that innovation is limited to the realm of research and development or technological advances. Companies often go to any lengths to develop their R&D department to foster innovation to stay successful in their industry. However, what drives the prized attribute of innovation in almost every company is not just R&D or its leaders but its employees.

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Génération2: The Social Good Accelerator

Innovation Excellence

Génération2 is a cooperative of advisors, working to increase and guide corporation, and social innovators’ partnerships, from Philanthropy to more business oriented solutions.

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Prepare Now: 2025s Must-Know Trends For Product And Data Leaders

Speaker: Jay Allardyce, Deepak Vittal, and Terrence Sheflin

As we look ahead to 2025, business intelligence and data analytics are set to play pivotal roles in shaping success. Organizations are already starting to face a host of transformative trends as the year comes to a close, including the integration of AI in data analytics, an increased emphasis on real-time data insights, and the growing importance of user experience in BI solutions.

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The Evolution of New Ideas

Mike Shipulski

Before there is something new to see, there is just a good idea worthy of a prototype. And before there can be good ideas there are a whole flock of bad ones. And until you have enough self confidence to have bad ideas, there is only the status quo. Creating something from nothing is difficult. New things are new because they are different than the status quo.

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2017 Reflecting on the year that was

Board of Innovation

Read More. The post 2017 Reflecting on the year that was appeared first on Board of Innovation.

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How to encourage your employees to contribute ideas

hackerearth

In today’s technological landscape, new ideas can be more than worth their weight in gold. We don’t need to look further than ubiquitous products that are an integral part of our lives today; they got their start as a novel projects at companies - Netflix’s decision to branch out into online streaming instead of DVD rentals, Apple’s decision to invest in the smartphone market, the Facebook news feed - these are just a few examples of new ideas that led companies to pursue projects that paid off

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Certainty —The Ultimate Closing Tool

Daniel Burrus

We are all selling something. Talking with a customer? You’re selling, of course. Meeting with a business partner to consider staffing changes? You’re selling. Have you ever tried to sell someone on helping you with an idea or tried to sell the CFO on funding your team’s project? All sorts of factors can enter into a decision on whether to buy a certain product or support a particular idea.

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How To Select the Right Software for Innovation Management

Finding the right innovation management software is like picking a racing bike—it's essential to consider your unique needs rather than just flashy features. This oversight can stall your innovation efforts. Download now to explore key considerations for success!

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Nominate the Top 40 Innovation Bloggers of 2017

Innovation Excellence

Innovation Excellence loves making innovation insights accessible for the greater good, because we truly believe that the better our organizations get at delivering value to their stakeholders the less waste of natural resources and human resources there will be. As a result we are eternally grateful to all of you out there who take the.

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Sourcing Novel Timber Building Concepts with Open Innovation

IdeaConnection

To source innovative timber building designs Metsa Wood (part of the paper group Metsäliitto) invited architects, engineers and innovators to take part in the world’s first Open Source Wood Hackathon, which took place recently in Nantes, France. Participants formed three multidisciplinary teams to generate novel wood designs using a type of laminated veneer lumber. “This is the first Open Source Wood Hackathon, but also a pioneering event in the wood construction industry, “said Mikk

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Weekly Product Gallery: Pipe, valves and fittings

hackerearth

This week’s gallery shines the spotlight on pipe, valves and fittings: added sizes for grooved couplings and nipples; a female drop ear elbow for showerhead applications; a corrosive waste piping system for a variety of applications; residential plumbing lead-free brass valves for PEX; a one-piece supply line with stainless-steel braided connector and supply stop; and fittings for corrugated stainless-steel tubing.

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Innovation of National Trade Associations

InnovationManagement

All over the world, members of most national trade associations, no longer wish to pay heavy dues just to wait a year to spend few days in an annual convention, receive quarterly newsletters and some educational webinars. They find all these too slow and very boring.

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How To Set Up Innovation So That It Aligns With And Enables Corporate Strategy

Speaker: Paul Heller

Most innovation work proceeds independently from company strategy. As a result, the products that arrive in the market are not well aligned with the company’s goals. This challenge is particularly significant in organizations with transformation-oriented strategies, where innovation must directly support growth, scalability, and strategic pivots. In this session, we will discuss why innovation in large companies is so often not aligned with the company’s strategy and what innovation leaders, pro

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We Need To Stop Trying To Predict The Future And Start Exploring It

Innovation Excellence

In a celebrated 1995 article in Newsweek, astronomer Clifford Stoll blasted Internet visionaries. “Do our computer pundits lack all common sense?” he asked. “The truth is no online database will replace your daily newspaper, no CD-ROM can take the place of a competent teacher and no computer network will change the way government works.

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Learning Design Thinking By Design Doing

Rmukesh Gupta

?. via GIPHY. I was invited by the organising team of the Society for Technical Communication’s India chapter conference to introduce the concepts of Design thinking to the participants. We did some brainstorming and decided that instead of giving a lecture for an hour about design thinking and walk off, it would be better if we can find some additional time and get the participants to experience Design thinking methodology by using the process to attempt to solve something that everyone o

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Everything you need to know about innovation management software

hackerearth

Although enterprise collaboration software market has been around for over 20 years, innovation management software is a specialized segment that helps companies guide and support their innovation process. With the right tool, the idea generation, implementation and evaluation, and market tracking phases can be managed to create successful business outcomes.

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How Gamification and Incentives Can Build Employee Engagement

Innovation Leader

Naureen Meraj, a training and digital transformation leader, discusses gamification and incentivizing participation in innovation. Find out more in this IL Confidential video.

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Driving Responsible Innovation: How to Navigate AI Governance & Data Privacy

Speaker: Aindra Misra, Senior Manager, Product Management (Data, ML, and Cloud Infrastructure) at BILL

Join us for an insightful webinar that explores the critical intersection of data privacy and AI governance. In today’s rapidly evolving tech landscape, building robust governance frameworks is essential to fostering innovation while staying compliant with regulations. Our expert speaker, Aindra Misra, will guide you through best practices for ensuring data protection while leveraging AI capabilities.

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?Making Innovation Personal: Resolutions For 2018, Part 1

Bill Fischer

Want to be part of an innovative organization? Change yourself first! In the spirit of making innovation more personal in 2018, I have asked a diverse and interesting set of innovation observers to each share a personal innovation resolution for the coming year.

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Happy Birthday Co-Lab Test

100%Open

There have been over 5000 Co-Lab tests in the 4 years from its inception in September 2013. 100%Open devised the test to aid one of the tough tests for business collaboration – the collaborators’ relationships. Each of the 5000+ respondents has hopefully learned something useful about themselves and how they collaborate in internal teams and in external collaborations.

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Business model innovation: a core capability for disrupting your industry

hackerearth

In the late 1990s and early 2000s, just when everyone thought that Apple’s growth had reached a saturation point, the company made a game-changing move. In 2001, Apple introduced an array of products and services beyond hardware and software. The company’s new offerings, such as the iPod, the iPhone, and the iTunes skyrocketed Apple’s growth all over again, taking it to the zenith of its industry.

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Fast Prototyping and Feedback at Shell's TechWorks Innovation Lab

Innovation Leader

Julie Ferland of the Shell TechWorks innovation lab, offers an inside at the space; the types of projects it works on; and the team Shell has assembled from outside the oil and gas industry.

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HR Meets AI: The New Way of Keeping Large Workforces Connected and Engaged

Speaker: Miriam Connaughton and Donald Knight

As organizations scale, keeping employees connected, engaged, and productive can seem like a monumental task. But what if AI could help you do all of this and more? AI has the power to help, but the key is implementing it in a way that enhances, rather than replaces, human connection. Join us for an exploration into how industry trailblazers are using AI to transform employee experience at scale while addressing both the potential and the pitfalls.

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Building an online Idea Generator

Board of Innovation

Read More. The post Building an online Idea Generator appeared first on Board of Innovation.

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5 Inexpensive Ways to Jump Start a Sustainable Culture of Innovation

Idea Champions

Trying to create a culture of innovation is a daunting task for even the most committed organization. Cultures take decades to form. Changing them is not an overnight phenomenon, no matter how many outside consultants you've gotten on the case. You might as well try to end world hunger or wipe out Aids overnight. It's gonna take a while. But if you and your colleagues are game, culture change is possible.

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Why use hackathon management software

hackerearth

Companies amass specialized knowledge with time and can address significant challenges by themselves within clearly defined contexts. Innovation, on the other hand, is a challenge because companies are unaware where these pockets of knowledge exist. Managers do not know, what skill-sets they might have within their reach, how to evaluate solutions, how to integrate these solutions into their workflows and much more.

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PepsiCo Exec on Business Unit Ties & the Perils of Too Many Ideas

Innovation Leader

Robert Perri of PepsiCo, talks about the importance of budget, borrowing resources when necessary, and close ties between innovation or R&D teams and their business unit partners.

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How to Master Product Portfolio Management

Pursuing product portfolio management excellence empowers organizations to unlock the full potential of their offerings. This comprehensive guide unveils 10 essential keys that serve as the building blocks for success.